Queer Body and Soul
Amanda Malamut weaves together their Catholic past with their queerness in this new poem. Accompanying artwork by Marcus Fessler.
China doll
Tzy Jiun Tan's poem tackles orientalism, sex, relationships and transactions.
Four Pink Songs
Tzy Jiun Tan's series of poems reflect on beauty standards, female pain and Asian womanhood.
You're Nothing More Than the Spokes on a Wheel I Call Moving Forward
I’m a dried salted fish / Barely hanging by a clothespin on a string you titled “I cannot feel for you” — Tzy Jiun Tan buries a bittered relationship in verse.
luncheon
Evoking Manet’s famous painting, this poem contemplates the looming male gaze, its interruption upon female dreams and pleasure.
Lolita, or the death of Nabokov
Nubile young flesh splashed onto a photograph as he stood mouth agape / Hips too young to be looked at but eyes knowing something of fear...